Memberships

American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Member

American Society for Microbiology

Projects

Chagas Disease and Leishmaniasis Vaccine

Development for a new therapeutic vaccine for Chagas disease. Current efforts focus on the development of two vaccine candidate antigens that will ultimately comprise the first therapeutic vaccine for Chagas disease.

Human Hookworm Vaccine

Development of a vaccine for the more than 700 million people suffering from hookworm in the world today. Vaccine currently in phase 1 clinical trials.

Schistosomiasis Vaccine

Schistosomiasis afflicts over 200 million people around the globe and is the deadliest disease among the seven most prevalent NTDs, killing an estimated 280,000 people annually.

SARS Vaccine

A new vaccine to prevent severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS)

Multivalent Anthelmintic Vaccine Discovery

A panhelmintic vaccine to prevent ascariasis (roundworm) and trichuris (whipworm), soil-transmitted helminths afflicting hundreds of millions of people around the world.

Development of a novel adjuvant for vaccine sparing

To develop a highly effective and safe protein adjuvant in a simple aqueous formulation that requires a much lower dose of antigen and that can be administered to humans to boost their immune response.